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A complete Forum Tutorial.
06Bon06
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Welcome to The Sims Forums!
This is a complete tutorial/ guide with pictures that will explain how to use the forum and every aspect of it.
Before we begin, I'd like to redirect you to the Member thread. You'll find everything you need to know about becoming a member in the first post.
The forum rules are located Here.
The basics
You will be greeted with the homepage when you enter, from where you can navigate to any place desired
The categories are listed on when you are on the homepage, scroll down and enter a category where you like to read, post or discuss.
Discussions is right next to Categories. This is where you'll find all of the important topics that have been stickied as well topics that are currently being discussed across the forum.
The Activity page is where you can see recent posts users have made to their profiles. You can like them, lol or comment. You can even make your own post from there. The leader boards on the right are for the users earning the most points. The top board is a weekly board and resets every Sunday while the bottom one is all time and the scores keep going up.
Best Of... is where you'll find comments that have gotten a lot of likes, lols or on the rare occasion a promote from a guru.
Member or New Member? Click here for everything you need to know
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
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Clicking on your picture on name will take you to your profile.
- On the top right you will see your picture.
- Middle top is your last comment you made to your own wall.
- Reaction show The number of Promotes( given by gurus), Likes and Lols you have received.
- Under that is where you can write something or post a picture( These appear on the activity page)
- Down in the middle you will find all your posts and posts other users have made to your wall.
Under your picture you can see the following:Under badges you'll find more personal information, such as:
Next to your profile picture you will find your notifications. You will receive notifications when someone posts on a thread you have bookmarked (later explained), when someone comments on a discussion(later explained) you have started or when you receive a Personal Message(later explained)These can be altered in Preferences(explained later)
Personal messages are where you can send and receive messages from other users. You can add more people to your conversation or just talk one on one. Messages are limited to 3 recipients. You can view all your messages by clicking that on the bottom of the drop down or you can create a new message by pressing that on the top right of the drop down. You can also send a message by clicking on a user's profile where you will find a 'Message' button on the top right.
After clicking on 'create new message' or message on a user's profile you will be greeted with this screen. If you chose 'create new message' you simply have to type the person's user name. Suggestions will appear and you can press enter to selects one, the up and down arrows will allow you to choose between multiple users. Once a person is added you can start typing the message or add another person.
The star represents your bookmarks. Threads that you want to receive notifications from, if so selected, or just want an easy way to fin the are stored here. By clicking on All bookmarks you will be directed to a page containing all bookmarks you have made. If were previous registered on The Sims 3 website, all threads that you commented on will have been bookmarked. You can unbookmark a thread by simply clicking the yellow star.
You can bookmark any thread by clicking the star, turning it yellow and adding it to your bookmarks page.
The gear on the very right contains two options, to log out of the website or to go to your preferences.
When clicking preferences you will directed to a page where you will find your Notifications preferences. Here you can choose what you want to receive notifications for.
The second option is to change your profile picture. You can remove your picture, edit the thumbnail or upload a picture from your computer. Your profile picture can also be changed by going to your profile and moving the cursor to the profile picture, a black bar appears allowing you to change the picture.
The 3rd option is to edit your thumbnail. This is how your picture will look when you post, the thumbnail also appear on the top next to your name.
The ignore list is to ignore people you do not wish to see. You will not see any of their posts. You can ignore up to 5000 people. To ignore someone, type their name into the box and press ignore or you can go to their profile and press ignore which is found when clicking the drop shown button on the very right, you can also report a user from here for breaking forum rules.
Quote settings allows you to choose from what level do you want the site to fold the quotes. This means, depending on what level you choose you will see a certain amount of quote. 1 level will always only have you see one quote even if there are 20 quotes in a post.
Signature setting is where you have a signature which can be links, a sentence , an image, video or a gif or your choosing as long as it doesn't violate the rules. The signature will appear under every post you make. You can choose to hide signature completely or strip the images out of signatures. A signature can only contain one image that will be resized and up to 300 characters in total.
On the top right of the Website you can change the background color to white or green.
You can also change the forum country which will take you to the Forum of the selected country.
complete forum tutorial
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To create a new Discussion, click the big blue button on the right.
When creating a new discussion you will have certain options.
While writing a post you have options, these include:
- Bolding your text.
- Making text Italic.
- Putting a strike through text.
- Creating an ordered list.
- Creating an unordered list.
- Adding a quote.
- Adding a code.
- Adding a spoiler alert.
- Adding emoji.
- Adding a link.
- Adding an image.
- Aligning text to the left.
- Aligning text to the right.
- Centering text.
- Changing text color.
- Changing text size.
Most of these options can be done simply by highlighting the text and clicking on one of the options.Create a list by clicking the list button which is 3rd and 4th from the left.
The set of options is found by clicking on the 5th button. The first option is to quote. Quoting can be useful to quote a certain part of an article that is wished to be quoted. This can be done by adding the quotations by clicking the button and then adding the desired quote in between the quote codes. Or by pasting the text, highlighting it and then clicking the quote button.
The second option in this list is called code, this is used to show code like the url tags or quote tags without it converting.
The 3rd option is called spoiler. When you desperately feel the need to reveal which character did what or just having a bit of fun, the spoiler code come in useful.
Next are the emoji, you can use then to add more emotion to your posts
You can post an url by copying your chosen website address and pasting into the box that appears when you click the link button and then pressing enter. You can also manually type i the url code . To make a clickable word that will take someone to your link just had your chosen word or sentence in between the url code. so now it will be seen as Member thread instead of http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/770609/member-or-new-member-everything-you-need-to-know/p1
To add an image you paste the image link into the box that appear when click the button as with the url or you can add the image codes to your link. .
Please note, Images can not be directly posted from your hard drive and will need to be posted on an image sharing site first.
Posting Images will be explained in more detail later on.
The following option you have is to align the text left/right or center it. When doing this the tex should always be between the code parameters.
You can change the size of your text from 1-7, 7 being the largest and 1 the smallest. You can do this by typing the code at the beginning and end of the text you wish to size or only at the beginning if you wish to make all the text fromt hat point to the end the same size.
Example: The above will looks like this when posted
I like writing thisThe dogate my homework. I ate my dog's food as revenge.
You can change the color of your text by typing the code at the beginning and end of the text you wish to color only at the beginning if you wish to make all the text from that point to the end the same color.
Example: The above will looks like this when posted
Once upon a time a monkey sat on a stump.The goldilocks ran into a gorilla that was making bakes angel cake.
A list of colors that can be used
complete forum tutorial
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To create a comment simply click a discussion of your choice, scroll to the bottom and comment. You will have the same tools available as in the description box when you create a discussion. This section will only expand on what has already been discussed in the discussion section above.
To post an image there are two methods.
If you wish to post an image like my profile picture for instance, you can open the picture in a new tab. Copy that url and post it as mention in the discussion section.
This can also be done when you browse a search engine for a picture, simply open the image in a new tab and copy the url or select the option to copy image url or click the view image button if you are using Google.Then add the url between img code.
First you will need to open an account on a photo sharing website. A few well known websites include:
Photobucket
Flickr
Imgur
Upload your picture onto website. Choose share links then choose the IMG link.
Note: You can remove url code if you do not wish for the picture to link back to your account.
Method 1 can easily be applied here but it's not necessary.
When reading a thread you can quote a person to reply to what they said, by using the second button. Or you can direct a post at the by using the @ sign and then writing their name, like this @name @06Bon06. They will receive a notification.
Another poster's post can be liked or lol'ed. If they are breaking forum rules you can flag their post.
Feel free to post any questions or suggestions.
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
i'll go prepare the mold and measurements
lets get this thread up and running
I have a bunch of numbered images, some with descriptions and instructions if that's useful.
Link: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/811310/old-forum-instructions-stuff-please-let-it-sink?new=1
@SimGuruBChick, this is why we need spoiler tags.
I wish I had this when I first became a member here
#ConfusedToNoEnd
But seriously, good job on this compilation of tutorials!
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My Sarcasm chips off today
Have a coffee and a warm pat on back for all your hardwork,
btw it's brewed with pure Precious.
@AnnePlays Thank you for the precious coffee
@greenXen Thank you
I'll continue writing a bit later today
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
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WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
I don't mind ^^
Yya! my pictures are showing up again... now I can continue
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
Thank you
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
The mod section of the forums is nice too. I like going to these two forum areas when having trouble with mods: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/technical-discussions and when looking for mods: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/mods Nice resource for finding mod and CC tools on this site: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/tutorials-and-tools-
Hi there, I apologise for the inconvenience. Unfortunately I have been having problems with the pictures showing up the last few times I wanted to finish it, I can see some pictures are not showing up, once again. I definitely try again later today, maybe by adding the forum pictures to another photo hosting site.
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
Not at all lol
As you can see, I'm nearly finished as things have been going really well today ^^ Thanks for egging me on, sometimes I need that lol
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma
(I didn't know how to edit color and size).
maybe the admin will give you a promote
Yay! Glad it's understandable and I could teach you something new ^^
@simsluvr90
I was thinking about that as it's basically the same as this one, it will only need new pictures..
complete forum tutorial
Thank you @MDianaSanders for halloween-fying Golluma